Tuesday, 25 October 2016

On Friday, 21 October 2016, many internet users could not reach marquee internet destinations like Amazon Web Services, Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Slack, PayPal, and many others.  Why not?  Dyn, a large Domain Name Service (DNS) provider, was under attack.

At roughly 7:00am North American...

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Friday, 10 July 2015

Years ago I was involved in trying to figure out how to use an in-house system to replace two cobbled-together commercial products.  I know, I know, everyone thinks it's supposed to go the other way, but in this case, the in-house-developed system was far superior.  It was already serving a...

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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Over the years, I’ve been involved in a number of technical due diligence exercises.  They’ve ranged from assessing an organisation’s information technology where the primary product or service was not technology related, all the way to examining companies where the main product or service was...

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Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Keep Stakeholders Engaged

Years ago, very shortly after I’d taken over management of a new team, there was to be a demonstration of a new set of features that my team had developed.  The demonstration was for the heads of the business areas that would be using those new features.  The...

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